July 23, 2025 • 19 mins
George Noory and psychic medium Ericka Boussarhane discuss her career as a psychic medium helping people communicate with the spirits of dead loved ones, stories from her tour of haunted sites in Pensacola Florida, and why many of the tales have moral tones we can apply to our own lives.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast am on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you.
Let me introduce our special guests. Erica Bussarhini, known as
the Psychic diva internationally acclaimed psychic medium and paranormal investigator
based in Pensacola, Florida. She is renowned for her ability
to communicate with spirits of the departed. She has helped
countless people find closure and guidance through her deeply emphatic
(00:27):
and eventual readings. She is an author as well filmmaker,
in addition to a guided tours called the Pensacola Ghost
Tour Guide. Erica, welcome back. Have you been I've been
doing great?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
How about you? George?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Looking forward to this and thank you for joining us
at such a late call. Our other guests had to cancel.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
It's always a pleasure to join the Coast to Coast
fans and listeners.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
They're just wonderful.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Sorry one, tell us your story of the psychic medium.
How did you become what you are?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Well, you know, I always kind of attribute it to
it's in the genes. I believe that all of us
are basically born psychic with intuition, along with our animals,
our pets and things like that. And I come from
a family that was afraid to kind of, you know,
own that that craziness, so I'd get it from my mom. Honestly,
(01:20):
she gets it from her mom, and it is a
recurring theme within I think our DNA.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Did you ever have any doubts about your abilities?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Almost definitely, George.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
As I was majoring in psychology and I started to
hear voices and see you know, unfortunately deceased girls telling
me things as I watched unsolved mysteries, I did question
my sanity. I must admit that, you know, I had
to really look at you know, schizophrenia and a lot
of the other you know, disorders that people say that
(01:55):
I would have to kind of see what the correlations were.
I think a lot of people that have autism and
some forms of diagnosis of mental illness are very intuitive
people that have parts of their brains that are just
not understood.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
How did you get the nickname psychic Diva?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Well, I think, you know, I won't say I was
born in another have a past life, or feel like
I was born in another generation, but I love antiques.
I'm actually prepping right now for an estate sale, but
no one died.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It's more of a downsize of my museum house.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
And so I've always loved the era of the nineteen twenties,
so really not Diva with ego, just diva with old
school you know, rocko.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Anything that's gold and glittery, I love it.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Eric, I have your abilities ever scared you?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh? You know growing up? You know, watching movies like
The Exorcist.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I think for a lot of the people now, and
you know, the conjuring and all these things that they
plant negative connotations and scare us. And what I try
to do is to tell people every day that being
psychic doesn't mean you're going to be possessed by the devil.
You know, I live in the Bible Belt, so I
think it's kind of funny, but you know, Annabelle is
(03:16):
not going to come in my house and you know,
haunt me. But yeah, there have been times when I've
interacted with things that I didn't understand and it was
scary at times.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I would say children's ghost.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
You know, spirits can be very scary when you actually see.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Them, did you know? Psychic investigator Dan Rivera who just
passed away.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I did not, but I have my own kind of
beliefs about different things like that you're talking about, the
one with the kondrant doll.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yes, yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I think that there is a fine line in this.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Business with the positive and the negative, and it does.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
It does exist.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I try to stay away from that energy because I
do know that it can physically hurt you. It can
give you disease, it can affect your family. You know,
you look at like the Haunting and conn Connecticut with
good example, Carmen Reid, her son had cancer.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
She was in an environment that was very negative.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So I do think that over time that can take
a toll on a person's physical health. And I think
that is a catalyst to what happened in that situation.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
We're going to get involved into some of these incredible
stories you've brought with you today, Erica. But you also
founded the Pensacola's History and Haunting's Ghost Tours. Tell us
about that.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Yes, well, you know, we live.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I live in Pensacola, the oldest settlement. I don't care
what Saint Augustine says. We were started in fifteen fifty
nine by true Tristan Dealuna and we were unfortunately and
destroyed in a hurricane, so we weren't a continued settlement.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
But I feel that.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Because we're the oldest settlement, and I know Gettysburg gives
us a run for the money.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I think we're the most haunted.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Location, probably second haunted in the United States. And as
I walk those streets down in Pensacola, just you know,
as a Pensacolian, I really wanted to share the stories
that talk to me as I walk these streets, and
that's why I founded that goes tour to let other
people kind of understand the history that we have, being
(05:20):
that we're the city of five Flags.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
That's exciting. How long do the tours last?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, we have different ones.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
We have self guided scavenger hunts, we.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Have walking tours, trolley tours, and they range anywhere.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
From an hour to two hours and summer longer.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's cool.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Also, you have all the Claires, don't you, Clairvoyance Claire audience, Clairecentians.
What are some of the others.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, George, I have been blessed or cursed.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
However, you want to look at it with remote viewing too,
you know, there are oftentimes that I'll be talking to
someone on the telephone or you know, be a reading
or just a customer service situation where I'm working with
someone like a calling guff power or something like that,
and all of a sudden, I'll say, hey, are you.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Wearing a purple shirt?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Or I'll be in their house walking around seeing their
deceased loved ones or their dogs and things like that.
So I would say I'm Claire Boyant, Claire Audio, Claire
Cynthia and also have that ability to kind of go
out of body sometimes and remote few from locations.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Since you've been doing this, how have you used the
different audiences or Claire's as they call them.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well, for the tours, I definitely find that. You know,
a lot of times I say, it's not about the tour.
Someone might come to do a ghost tour of Spirits
of Seville where we provide ghost sutting equipment and they
eat dinner, our lunch in that facility at the restaurant,
and they hear the history of the location, the haunted history.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But because I am a medium, it makes.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
The tours a little different. It's just not like a
costume actor. And sometimes their loved ones are doing more
of the talking than the spirits of the land. So
as a medium, I'm able to say, well, by the way,
you know, your dad is behind you and he's telling
me this, and as you as you look at our reviews.
It's kind of crazy because people will say, I want
(07:19):
Erica because you know, I've read the reviews and sometimes
you know, did people from you know, our DNA will
come through, not just the people you know from the
streets and the history hauntings.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Now the Seville Quarter restaurant one hundred and fifty years old.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Seville, I want to say, is the haunted the most
haunted restaurant in the world. You know, I would say
that the world the United States. I've had so many
different experiences. And the reason why is they most haunted
is because you know, I'm oftentimes disappointed with some of
the folk or hauntings, like you'll hear you know, certain
(07:57):
locations haunted, but once you get there, there's really not
any activity. I usually can bring somebody at Seville day
or night, my team can, my tours.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Will and they get activity all the time. So it's
not hit or miss.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
It's not maybe it's usually you know, even the skeptical
of skeptics will walk around and say, I can't explain this.
We just recently had a reggae band playing in the
back and there. If you check out my Facebook page,
you'll see where I was talking to a spirit with
a ghost tube sls and he is literally playing the
(08:34):
piano as where jamming is in the background and I'm saying, hey,
you're jamming, and.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
It just disappears. So yeah, it's very haunted. Seville Quarter
in Pensacola.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
What makes it so haunted?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You know, there are layers there.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
You know, I think the area has the history of
being the city of Five Flags, and you know, in
this time right now where we have a lot of
political things about different people of different nationalities and needing
to leave the United States, you know, I'm you know,
reminiscent of a place like Pensacola with such diversity, being
(09:11):
the city of the Five Flags that's going through Spain
and France and Great Britain and even the Confederacy into becoming.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
The United States.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
But there are so many layers of people there with
stories to tell, and I just feel like some of it.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Is residual, but some of it is active.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
And in Sabil.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Specifically, you have a dead man who died in the cooler,
you have ladies that you know worked in there as
a brothel, and you have children and I don't know
the location having artifacts and different things from all over
the world also adds to it being somewhat of a
portal in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Let's go through some of these hauntings. Who's Wesley Gibbs.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
So Wesley Gibbs did June e of nineteen ninety. He
was basically Wesley had been a worked in construction most
of his life and he was six seven, So when
people say I see a slender man, they don't understand.
Wesley was a very tall individual and he wanted to
work at very bad but the owners at the time,
(10:19):
the Mitchells, really didn't want to hire Wesley because he
didn't have any bartending experience. But he eventually got in
the door and he proved himself and he became a
favorite of many of the locals.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
And unfortunately, one faded day he was working and he
started sweating.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Everybody went home and he's back in the bar cleaning
and he started sweating a little bit more, and he
didn't realize at twenty seven that he was having a
heart attack, and yeah, he went into the cooler to
cool down, and unfortunately that's where he had that heart attack,
had a little bit of blunt force trauma, and he
was discovered hours later died of hypothermia. But they also
(10:58):
noted he had an enlarged heart, which is sometimes a
silent killer. More fans and things like that can unfortunately
affect people that are that tall.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Does he haunt it in a good way or an
evil way?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
He's good.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
But you know, we've done some research. I hate to
say we stopped the family, but we have. We've done
some research about him and individually and his family, and
we just found that he was he is an activist
of people and women. And so when you think about
that time, you know, back it was okay for the
women in fishnets with garters that were wearing almost like
(11:35):
the playgirl Buddy outfit to get this is before me
to movement everybody. It's okay for them to get a
pinch on the butt or you know. And so I
think when those men would do that, Wesley would also
give them some type of swift Ceville justice. And when
they would go in the restroom, the hand driers would
turn on, the automatic toilets would turn on, the lights
(11:59):
would turn off. He would pretty much make them almost urinate,
maybe on their shoes or their pants. It is well
known that he would do things like that if you
were not a nice person.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
So I think he overall is a very kind and sweet.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
They call him Stretch. He's a wonderful ghost. He's very kind,
but he doesn't play. He does do what I call
Wesley Swift Seville justice.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
What about ghostly children playing with a red ball?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yes, so that started.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
You know. I wish I could say I came up
with this as a medium, but no, this actually started
because children from all over.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The globe would come to Seville.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
It's a hot spot destination just for tourism. It's a
beautiful building, dating back to nineteen sixty seven, and it's got.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Seven different bars, very eclectic.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
So families come with their children in there, and a
lot of times the children will notice, hey, mom, can
I go play with that kid or those children down
there in the alleyway which is a hall, And parents
will say, what are you talking about. I don't see
any kids, And you know, if they stay in the building,
and that's a big if but if they stay in
(13:12):
the building, then we hear about is this place haunted?
Because my daughter just saw a child and there's no child.
So that the children have actually reported the children with
the balls and playing in the hallway and laughing and
giggling and disappearing throughout the location.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It sounds like this region has been really haunted.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yes, you know, not too far away.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
You've got where I call the square for Dan Plaza
of Death, Death Row. So there is a lot of
residual and also active hauntings in this little small area
of historic downtown Pensacola.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well with Psyche Media America Bussharhani, who her websites are
linked up at Costecosdam dot com Erica, tell us a
little bit about Sarah Wharton. What is her story?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
So, Sarah, you know, they are the folklore hauntings too
that you hear about in every city, and most of
them often have a woman who has a white dress
who's waiting for her sailor husband in the window. But
Sarah is a little bit more graphic and gross and grotesque.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
She is seen to.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Walk at night under moonlight.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Decapitated, Yeah, decapitated.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
This happened.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Well, actually the story is that Sarah Wharton and her
father were prominent socialites in the area and they were
walking down Tarragona Street and he was basically a man
of means, and pirates wanted to rob him, and he
tried his best to defend her honor and his honor
(14:55):
and kind of fight off these pirates that were there
to rob. He was then shot. They went after Sarah
because of her beauty, and unfortunately she well fortunately she
was a fighter like her father, and she took her
diamond ring and started to kind of use that to
gouge out the pirate's eye.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
He became enraged and decapitated her.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
And the story is that Sarah, and this has been
talked about over the years in books and things like that,
and I've actually witnessed this too, where she will appear
with her head on. Some people see it, you know,
literally decapitated.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I've not seen it that way.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I just see the shadow figure of a woman walking
down the street and she does.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Not appear to have a head.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Where did it go?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I think the pirates unfortunately decapitated her as as folklore,
and I think honestly.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
She's not you know, there's there's that whole.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Story about are they trapped.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I think she's not trapped.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I think she wants people to kind of know what
happened to her. And that's what I think some of
these spirits are about. It's not about them not being
able to move on. And sometimes they just want to
come back and say, Hey, you can see me, you
can hear me. Remember my story and my life goes
on as long as you're talking about me.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Tell us the significance of Plaza for none well.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Linder Shaw and several other people.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
And I always say this, you know, when we think
about I'm African American, as everybody listeners will probably know,
but you know, we always think about hangings as being
African American and a square like this where again we've
got the City of Five Flags. Everybody was hung. Yes,
there were more blacks unfortunately that were hung. Linder Shaw
(16:49):
was one of them, and there's a famous movie that's
been made about him. He was hung without any kind
of legal justice, and the sheriff at the time tried
to stop the angry moment from you know, killing him.
And there were several other tragedies that happened, you know,
for people that got shot accidentally during this time.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
But it seems that because of the courthouse, the gallows,
and that square.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Also Andrew Jackson turning this this era, this area over
to the United States, so there's been wars there as well.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
The location is just.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Very haunted with some of those voices of people that
were killed, of all ecdenticities that were killed and hung
in gallows, primarily because they just didn't have any money
to get.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Justice, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Unfortunately, like it is today, justice goes to some people
that have a little bit more heavier pockets. And these
people were coming off the boats to the city for
a better life. And if they were told, you know,
maybe they were stealing, or they could have been accused
for anything that they didn't do, they were.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Hung or received harsh punishment.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
And you know, I look at now when you've got
people that are almost going into slave labor.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That was one of the things too.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
If they were accused of something, they were put on
in plantations in different places to work the fields. So
I hate that I kind of see that coming to
some kind of fruition now. But yeah, that's why that
square is so so haunted.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Eric. It sounds like your exploration of some of these
events has a moral tone to it.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Yes, you know, I think for me.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You know, we always try to wonder why the activity.
As paranormal investigators, we want to know why is the
activity happening? You know, is it your mom or dad
or grandpa or somebody coming to just say hey, I'm okay.
After death, you know I didn't suffer, or you know
I've moved on, so you can kind of just say
goodbye to me and let me go. In these circumstances,
(19:02):
sometimes trauma will create this too, but it seems to
be in downtown Pensacola where I live, a lot of
these spirits do have a moral, a moral compass where
they're trying to aid us in this time.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I guess the streets are speaking to us.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
They're telling us, unfortunately about their history so that we
don't repeat it.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
And some of us are in tune with it, and
some of us are not.
Speaker 1 (19:27):
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Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast am on iHeartRadio.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
And welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you.
Let me introduce our special guests. Erica Bussarhini, known as
the Psychic diva internationally acclaimed psychic medium and paranormal investigator
based in Pensacola, Florida. She is renowned for her ability
to communicate with spirits of the departed. She has helped
countless people find closure and guidance through her deeply emphatic
(00:27):
and eventual readings. She is an author as well filmmaker,
in addition to a guided tours called the Pensacola Ghost
Tour Guide. Erica, welcome back. Have you been I've been
doing great?
Speaker 3 (00:40):
How about you? George?
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Looking forward to this and thank you for joining us
at such a late call. Our other guests had to cancel.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
It's always a pleasure to join the Coast to Coast
fans and listeners.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
They're just wonderful.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Sorry one, tell us your story of the psychic medium.
How did you become what you are?
Speaker 4 (01:00):
Well, you know, I always kind of attribute it to
it's in the genes. I believe that all of us
are basically born psychic with intuition, along with our animals,
our pets and things like that. And I come from
a family that was afraid to kind of, you know,
own that that craziness, so I'd get it from my mom. Honestly,
(01:20):
she gets it from her mom, and it is a
recurring theme within I think our DNA.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Did you ever have any doubts about your abilities?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Almost definitely, George.
Speaker 4 (01:32):
As I was majoring in psychology and I started to
hear voices and see you know, unfortunately deceased girls telling
me things as I watched unsolved mysteries, I did question
my sanity. I must admit that, you know, I had
to really look at you know, schizophrenia and a lot
of the other you know, disorders that people say that
(01:55):
I would have to kind of see what the correlations were.
I think a lot of people that have autism and
some forms of diagnosis of mental illness are very intuitive
people that have parts of their brains that are just
not understood.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
How did you get the nickname psychic Diva?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
Well, I think, you know, I won't say I was
born in another have a past life, or feel like
I was born in another generation, but I love antiques.
I'm actually prepping right now for an estate sale, but
no one died.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It's more of a downsize of my museum house.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
And so I've always loved the era of the nineteen twenties,
so really not Diva with ego, just diva with old
school you know, rocko.
Speaker 5 (02:43):
Anything that's gold and glittery, I love it.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Eric, I have your abilities ever scared you?
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Oh? You know growing up? You know, watching movies like
The Exorcist.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
I think for a lot of the people now, and
you know, the conjuring and all these things that they
plant negative connotations and scare us. And what I try
to do is to tell people every day that being
psychic doesn't mean you're going to be possessed by the devil.
You know, I live in the Bible Belt, so I
think it's kind of funny, but you know, Annabelle is
(03:16):
not going to come in my house and you know,
haunt me. But yeah, there have been times when I've
interacted with things that I didn't understand and it was
scary at times.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
I would say children's ghost.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
You know, spirits can be very scary when you actually see.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
Them, did you know? Psychic investigator Dan Rivera who just
passed away.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
I did not, but I have my own kind of
beliefs about different things like that you're talking about, the
one with the kondrant doll.
Speaker 5 (03:47):
Correct.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yes, yeah, you know.
Speaker 5 (03:50):
I think that there is a fine line in this.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Business with the positive and the negative, and it does.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
It does exist.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
I try to stay away from that energy because I
do know that it can physically hurt you. It can
give you disease, it can affect your family. You know,
you look at like the Haunting and conn Connecticut with
good example, Carmen Reid, her son had cancer.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
She was in an environment that was very negative.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
So I do think that over time that can take
a toll on a person's physical health. And I think
that is a catalyst to what happened in that situation.
Speaker 2 (04:23):
We're going to get involved into some of these incredible
stories you've brought with you today, Erica. But you also
founded the Pensacola's History and Haunting's Ghost Tours. Tell us
about that.
Speaker 5 (04:35):
Yes, well, you know, we live.
Speaker 4 (04:37):
I live in Pensacola, the oldest settlement. I don't care
what Saint Augustine says. We were started in fifteen fifty
nine by true Tristan Dealuna and we were unfortunately and
destroyed in a hurricane, so we weren't a continued settlement.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
But I feel that.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Because we're the oldest settlement, and I know Gettysburg gives
us a run for the money.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I think we're the most haunted.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
Location, probably second haunted in the United States. And as
I walk those streets down in Pensacola, just you know,
as a Pensacolian, I really wanted to share the stories
that talk to me as I walk these streets, and
that's why I founded that goes tour to let other
people kind of understand the history that we have, being
(05:20):
that we're the city of five Flags.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
That's exciting. How long do the tours last?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, we have different ones.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
We have self guided scavenger hunts, we.
Speaker 4 (05:30):
Have walking tours, trolley tours, and they range anywhere.
Speaker 5 (05:34):
From an hour to two hours and summer longer.
Speaker 2 (05:37):
That's cool.
Speaker 4 (05:38):
Now.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Also, you have all the Claires, don't you, Clairvoyance Claire audience, Clairecentians.
What are some of the others.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, George, I have been blessed or cursed.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
However, you want to look at it with remote viewing too,
you know, there are oftentimes that I'll be talking to
someone on the telephone or you know, be a reading
or just a customer service situation where I'm working with
someone like a calling guff power or something like that,
and all of a sudden, I'll say, hey, are you.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
Wearing a purple shirt?
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Or I'll be in their house walking around seeing their
deceased loved ones or their dogs and things like that.
So I would say I'm Claire Boyant, Claire Audio, Claire
Cynthia and also have that ability to kind of go
out of body sometimes and remote few from locations.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Since you've been doing this, how have you used the
different audiences or Claire's as they call them.
Speaker 4 (06:33):
Well, for the tours, I definitely find that. You know,
a lot of times I say, it's not about the tour.
Someone might come to do a ghost tour of Spirits
of Seville where we provide ghost sutting equipment and they
eat dinner, our lunch in that facility at the restaurant,
and they hear the history of the location, the haunted history.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
But because I am a medium, it makes.
Speaker 4 (06:58):
The tours a little different. It's just not like a
costume actor. And sometimes their loved ones are doing more
of the talking than the spirits of the land. So
as a medium, I'm able to say, well, by the way,
you know, your dad is behind you and he's telling
me this, and as you as you look at our reviews.
It's kind of crazy because people will say, I want
(07:19):
Erica because you know, I've read the reviews and sometimes
you know, did people from you know, our DNA will
come through, not just the people you know from the
streets and the history hauntings.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Now the Seville Quarter restaurant one hundred and fifty years old.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Seville, I want to say, is the haunted the most
haunted restaurant in the world. You know, I would say
that the world the United States. I've had so many
different experiences. And the reason why is they most haunted
is because you know, I'm oftentimes disappointed with some of
the folk or hauntings, like you'll hear you know, certain
(07:57):
locations haunted, but once you get there, there's really not
any activity. I usually can bring somebody at Seville day
or night, my team can, my tours.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Will and they get activity all the time. So it's
not hit or miss.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
It's not maybe it's usually you know, even the skeptical
of skeptics will walk around and say, I can't explain this.
We just recently had a reggae band playing in the
back and there. If you check out my Facebook page,
you'll see where I was talking to a spirit with
a ghost tube sls and he is literally playing the
(08:34):
piano as where jamming is in the background and I'm saying, hey,
you're jamming, and.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
It just disappears. So yeah, it's very haunted. Seville Quarter
in Pensacola.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
What makes it so haunted?
Speaker 3 (08:46):
You know, there are layers there.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
You know, I think the area has the history of
being the city of Five Flags, and you know, in
this time right now where we have a lot of
political things about different people of different nationalities and needing
to leave the United States, you know, I'm you know,
reminiscent of a place like Pensacola with such diversity, being
(09:11):
the city of the Five Flags that's going through Spain
and France and Great Britain and even the Confederacy into becoming.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
The United States.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
But there are so many layers of people there with
stories to tell, and I just feel like some of it.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
Is residual, but some of it is active.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
And in Sabil.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
Specifically, you have a dead man who died in the cooler,
you have ladies that you know worked in there as
a brothel, and you have children and I don't know
the location having artifacts and different things from all over
the world also adds to it being somewhat of a
portal in my opinion.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Let's go through some of these hauntings. Who's Wesley Gibbs.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
So Wesley Gibbs did June e of nineteen ninety. He
was basically Wesley had been a worked in construction most
of his life and he was six seven, So when
people say I see a slender man, they don't understand.
Wesley was a very tall individual and he wanted to
work at very bad but the owners at the time,
(10:19):
the Mitchells, really didn't want to hire Wesley because he
didn't have any bartending experience. But he eventually got in
the door and he proved himself and he became a
favorite of many of the locals.
Speaker 5 (10:30):
And unfortunately, one faded day he was working and he
started sweating.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
Everybody went home and he's back in the bar cleaning
and he started sweating a little bit more, and he
didn't realize at twenty seven that he was having a
heart attack, and yeah, he went into the cooler to
cool down, and unfortunately that's where he had that heart attack,
had a little bit of blunt force trauma, and he
was discovered hours later died of hypothermia. But they also
(10:58):
noted he had an enlarged heart, which is sometimes a
silent killer. More fans and things like that can unfortunately
affect people that are that tall.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Does he haunt it in a good way or an
evil way?
Speaker 3 (11:12):
He's good.
Speaker 4 (11:13):
But you know, we've done some research. I hate to
say we stopped the family, but we have. We've done
some research about him and individually and his family, and
we just found that he was he is an activist
of people and women. And so when you think about
that time, you know, back it was okay for the
women in fishnets with garters that were wearing almost like
(11:35):
the playgirl Buddy outfit to get this is before me
to movement everybody. It's okay for them to get a
pinch on the butt or you know. And so I
think when those men would do that, Wesley would also
give them some type of swift Ceville justice. And when
they would go in the restroom, the hand driers would
turn on, the automatic toilets would turn on, the lights
(11:59):
would turn off. He would pretty much make them almost urinate,
maybe on their shoes or their pants. It is well
known that he would do things like that if you
were not a nice person.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
So I think he overall is a very kind and sweet.
Speaker 4 (12:15):
They call him Stretch. He's a wonderful ghost. He's very kind,
but he doesn't play. He does do what I call
Wesley Swift Seville justice.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
What about ghostly children playing with a red ball?
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Yes, so that started.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
You know. I wish I could say I came up
with this as a medium, but no, this actually started
because children from all over.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
The globe would come to Seville.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
It's a hot spot destination just for tourism. It's a
beautiful building, dating back to nineteen sixty seven, and it's got.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
Seven different bars, very eclectic.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
So families come with their children in there, and a
lot of times the children will notice, hey, mom, can
I go play with that kid or those children down
there in the alleyway which is a hall, And parents
will say, what are you talking about. I don't see
any kids, And you know, if they stay in the building,
and that's a big if but if they stay in
(13:12):
the building, then we hear about is this place haunted?
Because my daughter just saw a child and there's no child.
So that the children have actually reported the children with
the balls and playing in the hallway and laughing and
giggling and disappearing throughout the location.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
It sounds like this region has been really haunted.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yes, you know, not too far away.
Speaker 4 (13:37):
You've got where I call the square for Dan Plaza
of Death, Death Row. So there is a lot of
residual and also active hauntings in this little small area
of historic downtown Pensacola.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Well with Psyche Media America Bussharhani, who her websites are
linked up at Costecosdam dot com Erica, tell us a
little bit about Sarah Wharton. What is her story?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
So, Sarah, you know, they are the folklore hauntings too
that you hear about in every city, and most of
them often have a woman who has a white dress
who's waiting for her sailor husband in the window. But
Sarah is a little bit more graphic and gross and grotesque.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
She is seen to.
Speaker 5 (14:25):
Walk at night under moonlight.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Decapitated, Yeah, decapitated.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
This happened.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
Well, actually the story is that Sarah Wharton and her
father were prominent socialites in the area and they were
walking down Tarragona Street and he was basically a man
of means, and pirates wanted to rob him, and he
tried his best to defend her honor and his honor
(14:55):
and kind of fight off these pirates that were there
to rob. He was then shot. They went after Sarah
because of her beauty, and unfortunately she well fortunately she
was a fighter like her father, and she took her
diamond ring and started to kind of use that to
gouge out the pirate's eye.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
He became enraged and decapitated her.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
And the story is that Sarah, and this has been
talked about over the years in books and things like that,
and I've actually witnessed this too, where she will appear
with her head on. Some people see it, you know,
literally decapitated.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
I've not seen it that way.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
I just see the shadow figure of a woman walking
down the street and she does.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
Not appear to have a head.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Where did it go?
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I think the pirates unfortunately decapitated her as as folklore,
and I think honestly.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
She's not you know, there's there's that whole.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Story about are they trapped.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
I think she's not trapped.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I think she wants people to kind of know what
happened to her. And that's what I think some of
these spirits are about. It's not about them not being
able to move on. And sometimes they just want to
come back and say, Hey, you can see me, you
can hear me. Remember my story and my life goes
on as long as you're talking about me.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
Tell us the significance of Plaza for none well.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
Linder Shaw and several other people.
Speaker 4 (16:27):
And I always say this, you know, when we think
about I'm African American, as everybody listeners will probably know,
but you know, we always think about hangings as being
African American and a square like this where again we've
got the City of Five Flags. Everybody was hung. Yes,
there were more blacks unfortunately that were hung. Linder Shaw
(16:49):
was one of them, and there's a famous movie that's
been made about him. He was hung without any kind
of legal justice, and the sheriff at the time tried
to stop the angry moment from you know, killing him.
And there were several other tragedies that happened, you know,
for people that got shot accidentally during this time.
Speaker 5 (17:10):
But it seems that because of the courthouse, the gallows,
and that square.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Also Andrew Jackson turning this this era, this area over
to the United States, so there's been wars there as well.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
The location is just.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Very haunted with some of those voices of people that
were killed, of all ecdenticities that were killed and hung
in gallows, primarily because they just didn't have any money
to get.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Justice, you know.
Speaker 4 (17:39):
Unfortunately, like it is today, justice goes to some people
that have a little bit more heavier pockets. And these
people were coming off the boats to the city for
a better life. And if they were told, you know,
maybe they were stealing, or they could have been accused
for anything that they didn't do, they were.
Speaker 5 (17:58):
Hung or received harsh punishment.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
And you know, I look at now when you've got
people that are almost going into slave labor.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
That was one of the things too.
Speaker 4 (18:09):
If they were accused of something, they were put on
in plantations in different places to work the fields. So
I hate that I kind of see that coming to
some kind of fruition now. But yeah, that's why that
square is so so haunted.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Eric. It sounds like your exploration of some of these
events has a moral tone to it.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Yes, you know, I think for me.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
You know, we always try to wonder why the activity.
As paranormal investigators, we want to know why is the
activity happening? You know, is it your mom or dad
or grandpa or somebody coming to just say hey, I'm okay.
After death, you know I didn't suffer, or you know
I've moved on, so you can kind of just say
goodbye to me and let me go. In these circumstances,
(19:02):
sometimes trauma will create this too, but it seems to
be in downtown Pensacola where I live, a lot of
these spirits do have a moral, a moral compass where
they're trying to aid us in this time.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
I guess the streets are speaking to us.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
They're telling us, unfortunately about their history so that we
don't repeat it.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
And some of us are in tune with it, and
some of us are not.
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